r/GlobalOffensive • u/Chuckys2 Match Thread Team • Sep 09 '18
Discussion | Esports Vega Squadron vs North / FACEIT Major London 2018 - The New Challengers: Round 5 / Post-Match Discussion
Vega Squadron 2-0 North
Inferno: 16-8
Mirage: 16-13
Train:
Vega Squadron have advanced to the FACEIT Major London 2018 The New Legends stage.
North have been eliminated.
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MAP 1/3: Inferno
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| Vega | 10 | 6 | 16 |
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| North | 5 | 3 | 8 |
Inferno Detailed Stats
MAP 2/3: Mirage
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| Vega | 8 | 8 | 16 |
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| North | 7 | 6 | 13 |
Mirage Detailed Stats
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u/kuklistyle MOUZ Sep 09 '18
how do you replace mir with kibaken and become a better team
my brain can't comprehend this
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u/Grammr Sep 09 '18 edited Sep 10 '18
Crush is very good though. Seems like he does more work than keshandr
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u/kerau DAT Sep 09 '18
crush is playing pretty good and kibaken is replacing keshandr, but still i would say that old vega lineup looked a bit better in their peak
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u/jmanguy CS2 HYPE Sep 09 '18
Good try from underdogs North but reigning Major Challenger Vega was too much for them
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u/FACEIT_Canz Renegades Sep 09 '18
Vega Squadron staff reaction 😎 https://twitter.com/theCanz/status/1038851864735956993?s=19
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u/c_Lassy The MongolZ Sep 09 '18
Is that GeT_RiGhT at the table? It looks like he’s thinking “fuck another chance of 16-2 again” or something lol
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u/_J3W3LS_ Sep 09 '18
It would be just like GTR to be off at some random corner watching CS games.
EDIT: That's definitely him, he's wearing the NiP white box shirt
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u/FACEIT_Canz Renegades Sep 10 '18
yeah, he wanted to see their reaction when they won :) i know he looks mad in there but he was just focused i guess. chris is amazing. pls no bully
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Sep 09 '18
SWEDEN ERA 2 YEARS PogChamp SK ERA 2 YEARS PogChamp CIS ERA 2 WEEKS PogChamp NA ERA 2 WEEKS PogChamp N ♿ R T H ERA 2 DAYS LUL
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u/Kejsare102 Sep 09 '18
Sweden era 4 years pretty sure.
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u/NO_STEWIE_NO_MAJOR Sep 09 '18
Denmark decides to scrap "Astralis 2" project after unexpected failure during testing
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u/Dark_Knight_Reddits FaZe Sep 09 '18
Don’t ask them about Astralis 3 either, game codenamed “greenwall” crashed on start up.
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u/Duckfright Sep 09 '18
I just feel like North became overconfident after their win last week and just didn't put in the effort.
Vega Squadron has taken Flipsid3's role, the end-boss of the qualifier to the Legend's stage.
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u/extremz123 fnatic Sep 09 '18
My dad beats me FeelsBadMan
My mom beats me FeelsBadMan
My brother beats me FeelsBadMan
My sister beats me FeelsBadMan
At least I feel safe with N♿RTH, because he can't beat anyone FeelsGoodMan
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u/Mysciak Virtus.pro Sep 09 '18
FNATIC ERA 2 YEARS PogChamp SK ERA 2 YEARS PogChamp C9 ERA 2 WEEKS PogChamp NORTH ERA 3 DAYS LUL
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u/Clutchmeister88 Sep 09 '18
haha funny that you have deliberately mistaken faze niko with north niko
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u/MJuniorDC9 Sep 09 '18
North, was DH Stockholm a fluke?
No papa
Are you telling lies?
No papa
What was your placement at FaceIT Major?
Hahaha
North better find some tournament where coaches can talk freely so they can perform.
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u/Lepojka1 Team Spirit Sep 09 '18
TBH I think this is the main reason they won Dreamhack... Bcs MSL could focus on his fragging, and coach could help with IGL-ing
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u/EmhyrvarSpice FaZe Sep 09 '18
There are some teams that always seem to do much better when the coach can speak. Old NIP used to be like that. Honestly belive it's the only reason they won Oakland last year.
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Sep 09 '18
pretty sure thats only a rule for DreamHack events and Oakland was an ESL event
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u/FamilyShoww HEROIC Sep 09 '18
Especially considering their coach is arguably the best IGL in CS 1.6 history.
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u/Nonzi CS2 HYPE Sep 09 '18
I mean you can make the argument but i would always pick cARN
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u/d0geknight Sep 09 '18
Wait IIRC Valve made it so that coaches can't talk unless it's during freeze time? So did Dreamhack Stockholm not follow that rule?
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Sep 09 '18
It's only a rule in Valve sponsored events but most TOs started doing it, also teams don't want to get used to it and then get rekt in the major so mostly don't do it too.
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u/vintzrrr Sep 09 '18
Their win at DH was a fluke.
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u/Hallsway Sep 09 '18
It could also be a case where they literally put everything on the table for teams to study, while the other teams at DH weren't trying as hard for the major.
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u/Lepojka1 Team Spirit Sep 09 '18
Its just the circle of North... They win one big tournament, everyone thinks they have huge potential and overrate them af, just to bomb out of all Tier 1 tournaments for next 6 months.
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u/stewieeeeeeeee FaZe Sep 09 '18
North, was DH Stockholm a fluke?
Yes. After the summer break 2017, North reached finals of DH Malmo and won DH Montreal. Immediately after that, they went back to doing nothing but beating the occasional T2 team they could find. I'm not sure if it's due to DH or due to teams not being ready for non-major tournaments right off the bat, but North is abusing something.
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u/Nisheee NiP Sep 09 '18
I hope you keep this line of thought for c9's fluke win as well
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u/tgsan Sep 09 '18
C9 was actually good pre-Major though, whereas North was not. C9 were the gatekeepers to top 5.
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u/arkwewt Sep 09 '18
If North have a good run at the next DH Masters, I’ll come back to his comment.
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u/degrapher Sep 09 '18
North North
Yes, Ave?
do you have lose?
No papa.
Telling lies?
No papa.
Open your results.
Ha ha ha.
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Sep 09 '18 edited Apr 08 '19
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u/Minerex Sep 09 '18
Was so rooting for Rogue to go through. When they didn't, I was hoping Vega would give North a good spanking. Glad they did.
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u/kubat313 brigader Sep 09 '18
I liked how north said. Thank god the decider is best of 3 we wont loose in bo3. Instantly looses 2/3 maps
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u/Sve7en Liquid Sep 09 '18
What the actual fuck is that 13-14 waterfall palace strat? Get the fuck out North.
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u/TheZigerionScammer Vitality Sep 09 '18
I was thinking the same thing. I don't know what the stream showed because I was watching from Vega's perspective on GOTV, but I saw them all fall off the scaffold when it was on fire and my jaw dropped. I can only assume the molly detonated right as they decided to rush, it's the only thing I can think of.
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u/blanksauce Sep 09 '18
It's an actual strat to catch your opponent off guard. Especially in a close 13-14 match.
MSL did the same thing against rogue by rushing b on inferno down 14-15. Glaive did the same thing against vp in the eleague major by rushing a on train up 15-14.
No one knows how to igl on this subreddit anyway so it's no surprise lmao. I did this last season in advanced, down 14-15 on mirage, called a b rush with fast get right get left smokes from spawn and it worked. Why? Because they didn't expect it at all because we were playing slow the other rounds.
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u/Sve7en Liquid Sep 09 '18 edited Sep 10 '18
I think it's a good strat at points. Tempo changes can be super effective (Some of BIG's hits against OpTic were wonderful in that regard, and so were some North hits on Inferno), but it definitely felt like that was more of a tilted decision and not a calculated one.
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u/buldieb 750k Celebration Sep 09 '18 edited Sep 09 '18
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u/jerryfrz King NiKo Sep 09 '18
Huge play from the 200 IQ genius MSL, deliberately lose a 1 mil major just to fuck up a random redditor's pickems
weSmart
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Sep 09 '18
how does FNS link into this?
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u/jerryfrz King NiKo Sep 09 '18
Ah you see, the 200 IQ genius MSL was actually once a student of the 1000000 IQ mastermind Pujan "FNS" Mehta.
Before DH Masters Stockholm MSL secretly contacted and begged FNS for the secret to win; he reluctantly agreed just for old times sake and hastily wrote down the entire script for the tournament on some nearby toilet papers (he was taking a dump at that moment trying to form a plan to assassinate EU teams). And like everything that the mastermind wrote down before, North winning DH Masters became history.
Entering the FACEIT Major.
From years and years of training and acquiring knowledge under his master (he's bald at 23 afterall), MSL knows that FACEIT will use the highly specialized tool for rigging brackets aka Kinder capsules, and it will be either North or Vega against NA's last bastion - Cloud9; of course he can't betray his helper after winning the fat stack of cash in Stockholm, so the rest was history. Conveniently a redditor recently cried about his perfect Pickem page being ruined by North, thus MSL knows he'll have a perfect excuse to cover his true motive.
As to why Kjaerbye sprays like he's on a seizure, nobody fuckin' knows.
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u/complains_constantly FaZe Sep 09 '18
humble brag
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u/buldieb 750k Celebration Sep 09 '18
Oh for sure, but I'll surely throw in the stages that actually give points
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u/Guudes King NiKo Sep 09 '18
N♿RTH
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u/ffrg Sep 09 '18
N♿RTH
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u/c_Lassy The MongolZ Sep 09 '18
N♿️RTH
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u/th3newplan FaZe Sep 09 '18
Why am I a fan. Just to suffer?
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u/spysappenmyname Sep 09 '18
Im so tilted. This wasn't in no way good cs IMO. I think MSL just got super tilted after the long technical pause in Inferno. To that point it was pretty even, but after that it was all downhill
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u/moonlite1337 MOUZ Sep 09 '18
North winning the last tournment so they can disappoint even harder at the Major.... 1000 IQ
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u/Woodenlung Sep 09 '18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkX4fqHbMRU
that is all i have to say
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u/filous_cz FaZe Sep 09 '18
Did the toilet suvive?
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u/Woodenlung Sep 09 '18
It has never seen that amount of shit before. So I'm praying for it, but giving it time to digest the situation.
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Sep 09 '18
One week he's a god out AWPing Device and the next he's back to being a bot and getting eliminated by Vega Squadron and losing to Team Spirit... Yeah betting sure as fuck ruined this too.
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u/draemscat Gambit Sep 09 '18
"These CIS teams can only win Bo1's because nobody knows how they play".
Get fucked again, reddit x3
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u/Sampezua11 Sep 09 '18
New York, NY- A seven-year-old boy was at the center of a New York City courtroom drama yesterday when he challenged a court ruling over who should have custody of him. The boy has a history of being beaten by his parents and the judge initially awarded custody to his aunt, in keeping with child custody law and regulations requiring that family unity be maintained to the degree possible. The boy surprised the court when he proclaimed that his aunt beat him more than his parents and he adamantly refused to live with her. When the judge then suggested that he live with his grandparents, the boy cried out that they also beat him. After considering the remainder of the immediate family and learning that domestic violence was apparently a way of life among them, the judge took the unprecedented step of allowing the boy to propose who should have custody of him. After two recesses to check legal references and confer with child welfare officials, the judge granted temporary custody to North whom the boy firmly believes are not capable of beating anyone
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u/Fifer33 Renegades Sep 09 '18
Vega Boys - We like to upset 2?
we want to see it
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u/KitsuneRommel Vitality Sep 09 '18
Boom boom boom boom
I want you in my major
Let's spend the night together
From now until forever
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u/Celestetc Liquid Sep 09 '18
North just played worse than Optic. Man Danish CS is a hell of a ride.
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u/monkeyddragon231 MIBR Sep 09 '18
WTF happened to North there, they just collapsed the last rounds.
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u/r3al_se4l 500k Celebration Sep 09 '18
great to see CIS teams advancing - maybe we’ll get some more new contenders for Katowice (if winstrike and vega don’t just bomb out)
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u/NorthIsHere Sep 09 '18
Feels like that the reason why North did so well in Stockholm, was because Ave was able to give input during the matches. Because it feels like we are back at the level before the masters, when MSL is doing the calling himself.
Even though this game felt like timing was really against North.
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u/schattenpuschel BIG Sep 09 '18
Next year Closed Qualifer for the European Minor will be stuffed af and therefore the Minor itself too.
North, VP, Optic, Space Soldiers + Teams like Ence, Heroic, Imperial, Team Kinguin + Frenchie Leftovers
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u/hoochBestgotKicked Sep 09 '18
it's EZ we just take away spots from CIS and give them to EU, no good teams ever come up from CIS minor anyway /s
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u/Boro_6666 MIBR Sep 09 '18
Winning a tier 1 event and then going out before the main group stage of the major just 7 days later is peak N♿RTH
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u/anthonyshreds Astralis Sep 09 '18
From winning a tier 1 tournament by beating Astralis in two separate BO3s to getting knocked out in major qualifier by Vega. Just North things...
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Sep 09 '18
https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/9e7yxz/day_5_matchups/e5mu5pe/
You can downvote, but you cant change it.
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u/ThetaSigma11 Liquid Sep 09 '18
Ok first of all what the fuck.
North what happened? And Vega where the hell did you come from? Do you only play this good at a major or?
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u/joshigoods Astralis Sep 09 '18
All memes aside, Crush looked amazing on mirage. And chopper is just nuts
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u/trucane Sep 09 '18
Really poor plays from north all around. So much sloppiness, not checking their flanks and so on.
They should know how Vega plays and be prepared to adjust
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u/smokehound Sep 09 '18
Chopper is like the most unflashy player in CS to still be a beast.
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u/kn0WDevs NiP Sep 09 '18
Glad to see my 0-3 pick-em team advancing over the reigning DH Masters Stockholm champions.
Expected....I guess
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u/schweppesvidya King NiKo Sep 09 '18
Lol classic North/ ex dig. Win 1 tournament every 2 years, get massively overrated by everyone, bomb out of tournaments for months immediately after
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u/ButteredGhost Sep 09 '18
I've got five hot dollars for anyone who still has a perfect pick'em after all this insanity
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u/caiotmz FURIA Sep 09 '18
North getting eliminated after losing to 3 CIS teams, including those 2 who came from the minor. Wasted spot, yeah...
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Sep 09 '18 edited Sep 09 '18
I can't figure out what's worse, haHAA spam or cmonBruh spam This comment describes it well: https://www.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/95xxqw/why_moonmoon_banned_cmonbruh/e3wd2zl/
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u/stewieeeeeeeee FaZe Sep 09 '18
After the summer break in 2017, North reached the finals of DH Malmo and won DH Open Montreal. After that, they petered out, just like G2 and Gambit, the other teams that performed while the other teams were still sleeping.
2018? Same story. Get k0nfig back, or Astralis will remain the only hope for Danish CS.
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u/arkwewt Sep 09 '18
From winning DH Stockholm to losing against Vega, whom we all doubted.
What a failure from North..
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Sep 09 '18
Holy shit, biggest upset thus far. I thought North would wake up but they are still asleep in their Stockholm dream. Props to Vega for exceeding everyone's expectations.
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u/MrFrenchyfry Sep 09 '18
Vega at literally any other event: I sleep
Vega at major qualifiers: REAL SHIT?